What is Capstan?
Capstan – an end to ''wow and flutter'' (Crying and floating) More than a hundred years ago, the song was recorded in mechanical media. And for over a hundred years, there's been a problem with that: wow and flutter. Who is not familiar with the hula hoop, the buzz and the drag? Mechanical degradation caused by defective devices or adhesive tapes, aging or defective storage. In the past, it was usually impossible to get rid of wow and vibrate. Numerous recordings of renowned orchestras, major bands and rock groups are sleeping soundly in the archives. However, they are unusable simply due to wow and flutter. The worthless tapes, the lost recordings for posterity. Hitherto. For, in Capstan, there is now, for the first time, a program capable of removing wow and flutter from the recorded music. Whether in adhesive tape, compact cassette, wax, shellac or vinyl.
Musical intelligence
The Capstan algorithm is able to recognize not only the smallest amounts of wow and flutter, but also the continuous speed variations within the musical material. Note detection and head fluctuations are based on patented DNA Direct Note Access technology, famous for Melodyne, an application used in studios around the world for pitch editing and timing. Unlike Melodyne, however, Capstan employs DNA note detection exclusively to remove wow and flutter through varispeed. It allows for a detailed edit that extends even to allow you to draw on the curve by hand.
Precise control
To what extent Capstan reaches his music to correct wow and flutter is something you can accurately determine. Corrections are made using high-quality varispeed, so no artifacts of the type associated with pitch-shifting or time-stretching algorithms are introduced.
The means is irrelevant Cabrestante is a purely digital solution that detects the wow and flutter in the music material itself.
Capstan's Many Advantages is an easy-to-use and highly efficient solution for eliminating wow and flutter: Works on Mac or PC and requires no additional hardware Handles all common audio formats for mono, stereo, multi-channel or multi-track detection based recordings on our patented DNA Direct Note Access high-quality correction technology, based on varispeed, free of time-changing or time stretching artifacts Works even when a tape has been copied multiple times or scanned at low resolution.
System requirements:
Mac OS Intel Mac, MacOS 10.9.5, 10.10.5 or 10.11.3, 4 GB of RAM or more, iLok windows (64-bit) Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, 4 GB of RAM or more, iLok dongle
